Re: DAISY Consortium supports the more comprehensive scope and we believe Markus Gylling would be an excellent co-chair

Thierry,

You would probably wanted to say that Markus is a very good candidate
(if not the best) to co-chair this IG ?

Mohamed

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thank you for your support.
> We are all convinced that Markus wearing DAISY and IDPF hats is the best
> candidate for chairing this new IG.
>
> Indeed we will discuss further the relationship of W3C and IDPF to make it
> first class.
>
> Best,
>
> Thierry.
>
>
>
> On 17/03/2013 19:55, Bill McCoy wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> Since George cc:ed me I will take the opportunity to chime in as well
>> (IDPF did not receive a formal request for comments, which I presume
>> is because it was sent to W3C members, and IDPF and W3C have presently
>> a liaison relationship).
>>
>> Anyway for the record IDPF seconds the response George made on behalf
>> of DAISY Consortium. As you know Markus is jointly appointed CTO of
>> DAISY Consortium and IDPF. Since EPUB come from IDPF, and IDPF members
>> are drawn from a larger pool of publishing industry stakeholders, I
>> think it would be desirable to have direct IDPF representation in the
>> leadership of the contemplated Interest Group. Since Markus wears both
>> hats he can of course do that if he ends up being personally involved.
>> If we wanted to formalize a reciprocal relationship or have IDPF join
>> W3C in order to facilitate him wearing an "IDPF" hat , and/or to have
>> additional representation from IDPF, that would certainly be an
>> option.
>>
>> I just want to be clear that IDPF is open to whatever makes sense to
>> help foster alignment and harmonization, and to ensure that publishing
>> industry has the maximum bandwidth of communication with W3C in the
>> interests of advancing the overall Open Web Platform.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --Bill
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you for your support George!
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>> On Mar 17, 2013, at 19:01 , "George Kerscher" <kerscher@montana.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> DAISY Consortium, a long-time member of the W3C,  supports the W3C
>>>> increasing its emphasis on Digital Publishing, and the proposed Interest
>>>> Group seems to be a good step. DAISY favors the wider charter because
>>>> "eBooks" does not capture the full range of digital publishing use cases
>>>> for
>>>> the Open Web Platform.
>>>>
>>>> Accessibility to all is critical, and DAISY has worked within the
>>>> International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) to ensure that EPUB, the
>>>> packaged portable document format built on HTML and other Web Standards
>>>> that
>>>> has been developed by the IDPF, meets all key requirements for
>>>> accessibility. As fragmentation of multiple non-interoperable formats
>>>> would
>>>> be a very bad result, both for accessibility and in general, DAISY
>>>> believes
>>>> it's critical that W3C's new engagement in publishing align with EPUB
>>>> and
>>>> explicitly involve IDPF and its 300+ members from across the global
>>>> publishing industry in pursuing the worthwhile long-term goal of
>>>> harmonization of EPUB and W3C Recommendations and other work to advance
>>>> the
>>>> Open Web Platform for publishing requirements.
>>>>
>>>> We also think that Markus Gylling would make an excellent co-chair for
>>>> this
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> George
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> George Kerscher Ph.D.
>>>> In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human
>>>> right.
>>>> Secretary General, DAISY Consortium
>>>> http://www.daisy.org
>>>> Senior Officer, Accessible Technology Learning Ally originally Recording
>>>> For
>>>> the Blind & Dyslexic
>>>> http://www.learningally.org
>>>> Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of
>>>> the
>>>> W3C
>>>> http://www.w3c.org/wai
>>>> President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
>>>> http://www.idpf.org
>>>> Phone: +1 406/549-4687
>>>> Email: kerscher@montana.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----
>>> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
>>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/
>>> mobile: +31-641044153
>>> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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